Anti-cancer therapeutic strategies based on HGF/MET, EpCAM, and tumor-stromal cross talk

K Barzaman, R Vafaei, M Samadi, MH Kazemi… - Cancer cell …, 2022 - Springer
As an intelligent disease, tumors apply several pathways to evade the immune system. It can
use alternative routes to bypass intracellular signaling pathways, such as nuclear factor-κB …

Hypoxia effects on oncolytic virotherapy in Cancer: Friend or Foe?

M Sadri, A Najafi, A Rahimi, N Behranvand… - International …, 2023 - Elsevier
Researchers have tried to find novel strategies for cancer treatment in the past decades.
Among the utilized methods, administering oncolytic viruses (OVs) alone or combined with …

Adenosinergic pathway: a hope in the immunotherapy of glioblastoma

K **, C Mao, L Chen, L Wang, Y Liu, J Yuan - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most aggressive type of brain tumor
with dismal survival and poor response to conventional therapies. Therefore, the …

Immune checkpoints in hematologic malignancies: What made the immune cells and clinicians exhausted!

A Hajifathali, S Parkhideh, MH Kazemi… - Journal of cellular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Hematologic malignancies comprise a considerable part of cancers with high mortality at
any age. Since the introduction of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), the …

Functional significance of lymphocytes in pregnancy and lymphocyte immunotherapy in infertility: A comprehensive review and update

R Jafarpour, S Pashangzadeh, S Mehdizadeh… - International …, 2020 - Elsevier
During pregnancy, the fetal-maternal interface underlies several dynamic alterations to
permit the fetus to be cultivated and developed in the uterus, in spite of being identifies by …

Pentoxifylline changes the balance of immune cell population in breast tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes

MH Kazemi, M Shokrollahi Barough… - Medical Oncology, 2023 - Springer
Immunotherapy utilizing tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) is a promising approach for
cancer treatment. Pentoxifylline (PTXF), a xanthine derivative, exhibits antitumor properties …

Immune and metabolic checkpoints blockade: Dual wielding against tumors

MH Kazemi, A Najafi, J Karami, F Ghazizadeh… - International …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent advances in cancer immunotherapy have raised hopes for treating cancers that are
resistant to conventional therapies. Among the various immunotherapy methods, the …

Fibroblast growth factor 2 augments transforming growth factor beta 1 induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition in lung cell culture model

LMF El-Baz, NM Shoukry, HS Hafez… - Iranian journal of …, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Impaired lung epithelial cell regeneration following injury may contribute to the development
of pulmonary fibrosis. Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a critical event in …

Overexpression of bHLH domain of HIF-1 failed to inhibit the HIF-1 transcriptional activity in hypoxia

F Sadeghi, GA Kardar, MR Bolouri, F Nasri, M Sadri… - Biological Research, 2020 - Springer
Background Hypoxia inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) is considered as the most activated
transcriptional factor in response to low oxygen level or hypoxia. HIF-1 binds the hypoxia …

Pre-transplant thrombocytopenia predicts engraftment time and blood products requirement in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation patients

E Roshandel, S Kaviani, A Hajifathali… - … and Apheresis Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Introduction Thrombocytopenia is a common consequence of leukemia that affects the
outcome of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). The stromal damage of bone …